http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54984
--- Comment #5 from Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini at oracle dot com> 2012-10-26 00:17:45 UTC --- And I'm testing the below, which appears almost obviously correct: essentially, when build_new is passed a pointer to null pointer to VEC, it should not turn the null pointer to VEC into an empty VEC! Index: init.c =================================================================== --- init.c (revision 192814) +++ init.c (working copy) @@ -2911,7 +2911,8 @@ build_new (VEC(tree,gc) **placement, tree type, tr orig_placement = make_tree_vector_copy (*placement); orig_nelts = nelts; - orig_init = make_tree_vector_copy (*init); + if (*init) + orig_init = make_tree_vector_copy (*init); make_args_non_dependent (*placement); if (nelts)